The FBI continues the clown circus

Well at least I didn’t hire a spotter plane; at least I didn’t do that!

This is somehow supposed to make us forget their lying, scheming agents and directors? I don’t think so. Ms. Ghilane is 58-years old and isn’t known to be armed or dangerous. Two dozen Feebies, spy planes, 15 SUVs plus every cop in two states who wanted in on the fun showed up for this farce. Jackbooted, grandstanding morons.

Armed agents raced a convoy of 15 vehicles through the New Hampshire woods, with spy planes buzzing overhead, in the moments before they smashed down Ghislaine Maxwell’s door and arrested her Thursday, according to a report.

Small planes had started buzzing over Bradford in New Hampshire from 4.20 a.m. Thursday — four hours before the raid on Maxwell’s 156-acre hideaway, locals told the Mail on Sunday newspaper.

When 24 armed FBI agents finally stormed the property — suitably named “Tuckedaway” — they were backed by New York cops, local officers and even New Hampshire’s gang task force, the paper said.

After using bolt-cutters to break the lock on a metal gate the teams “drove at speed up the half-mile driveway in a convoy of 15 vehicles,” an officer told the paper.

“And let’s just say, we didn’t knock politely on the door,” the officer said. “It was smashed down.”

“Yeah, we coudda just called her lawyers and told ‘em to have her turn herself in” Officer Obie told FWIW, “but what fun is that? And besides, for all we knew, Hillary was inside with a rope or sumptin— hey, we were just trying to save this girl’s life.”

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(Babylon Bee Art Department)

Redskins change name to Lizard People to better represent the population of D.C.

Politicians immediately expressed their support for the name change, saying they can relate to a team called the Lizard People. "I see a name like Lizard People, and I know that's a team I can be proud of," said Adam Schiff, his eyes hungrily following a fly buzzing around the room. He licked his lips. "Much better than that Redskins nonsense. Hey, look over there, is that Vladimir Putin?" As reporters turned to look, Schiff shot a long tongue out of his mouth, lightning-quick, and nabbed the fly. "Oh, must have been mistaken," he said, shrugging.

Another follower of science who knows that BLM protesters are protected by the Shield of Virtue

Florida attorney who raised money for Democrats by dressing as the Grim Reaper to scare beachgoers encourages attending BLM rallies.

Washington Post Celebrates the 4th of July by – surprise! — hating on the country

Villanova Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest faculty, Elizabeth Kolsky, 2nd row, right

Op-ed authored by a Elizabeth Kolsky, Phd. from Columbia, now teaching at Villanova*.

It is Time to Reconsider the Global Legacy of July 4, 1776

… The first is the central paradox in U.S. history: The nation’s democracy was founded as a slave society. The second is that after cutting political ties with Great Britain, Americans doubled down on the British Empire’s project of colonial domination. The American Revolution inspired freedom movements in other parts the world. But it also contributed to the worldwide spread of white supremacy. In the century after independence, the United States went from being a province of Britain’s empire to building its own empire “from sea to shining sea” and then overseas in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Guam.

When President Thomas Jefferson set the country on a path of westward expansion, he imagined an “empire of liberty” that would spread freedom across the continent and protect the nation from the “dangerous extension” of British power. But the growth of slavery and the “removal” of native peoples on the mainland were achieved by force, not consent.

Across the Atlantic, Britain responded to the loss of the 13 colonies by developing a “second,” much larger empire in Asia, Australia and Africa. Both the American and the British Empires post-1776 were structured by racial hierarchy, violence and a systemic devaluation of black and indigenous lives.

Consider, for example, the case of India. In the decades after U.S. independence, the British East India Co. conquered most of the subcontinent. British colonizers embedded racism in the law, political economy, geography and culture of British India from the late 18th century.[…]

Britain’s settler colonies in Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Africa caused the violent dispossession of indigenous peoples and frequently justified the idea of black extermination. In 1825, for instance, a white settler in Australia publicly proposed: “The best thing that could be done would be to shoot all the Blacks … the women and children should especially be shot as the most certain method of getting rid of the race.”

Despite self-aggrandizing claims to the contrary, Britain’s abolition of slavery in 1833 did not stop racism. In fact, colonial expansion intensified colonial racism. Genocidal violence was a foundational pillar of the British Empire, not an accidental or unintentional outcome.

As a consequence of colonial policies, as many as 30 million Indians died of starvation during three major famines that ravaged the subcontinent in the last quarter of the 19th century.After America declared independence from Britain, both countries maintained powerful traditions of racism and violence that were distinct and interconnected.

Oh, those rotten rebels: by throwing off the yoke of human bondage in 1776 they forced England to show up in India in 1608, the Spanish to conquer and destroy the peace-loving Aztecs and their friends in the 1500s and unlashed the Dutch, Portuguese, Germans, French, Japanese and Chinese on the rest of the world. American racism: is there anything it can’t do?

*annual cost tuition, food and board, $72,882.00

Compare and contrast, class

Missing from this Hong Kong protest: flags from communist countries and Third World kleptocracies

In the past few decades almost our institutions of higher learning have banished western civilization course requirements and encouraged their students to study the history of the Third World instead so as to gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of their cultures and contributions to the world.

Those budding citizens of the Nation of Woke could save countless hours of study (ha ha ha) by merely glancing at the results of this single vote by the members of the U.N. Human Rights [sic] Commission supporting or condemning China’s crushing of Hong Kong’s democracy. With the exception of Antigua and Barbuda, both heavily in debt to and dependent on China, the pro votes came exclusively from countries that don’t trace their roots to western civilization. There’s a lesson here, but it won’t be taught in our schools.

The 53 countries supporting China's crackdown on Hong Kong

• Supporting: China, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahrain, Belarus, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo-Brazzaville, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Saudi Arabia,  Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Syria, Tajikistan, Togo, UAE, Venezuela, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

• Opposing: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Germany, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Marshall Islands, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Palau, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.K.

This is what the Left considers dark, racist and divisive. The fact that it does so reveals the true nature of their plan.

Trump; exploding heads since November ‘16

Over at PJ Media, Tyler O’Neil summarizes yesterday’s speech.

Trump: “Our Founders launched not only a revolution in government, but a revolution in the pursuit of justice, equality, and prosperity. No nation has done more to advance the human condition than the United States of America, and no people have done more to promote human progress than the citizens of our great nation,” the president boldly declared.

When the patriots signed the Declaration of Independence, “they enshrined a divine truth that changed the world forever when they said that all men are created equal. These immortal words set in motion the unstoppable march of freedom.”

That glorious year of 1776 — not 1619 — “represented the culmination of thousands of years of Western Civilization and the triumph of not only spirit but of wisdom, philosophy, and reason. And yet as we meet here tonight, there is a growing danger that threatens every blessing our ancestors fought so hard for.”

“Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children,” Trump warned. “Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our Founders, deface our most sacred memorials, and unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities.”

O’Neil: The president declared that the American people are not “weak and soft and submissive” but “strong and proud.” Americans “will not allow our country, and all of its values, history, and culture, to be taken from them.”

Trump condemned the rising left-wing orthodoxy as a new form of “totalitarian… fascism.”

“One of their political weapons is cancel culture, driving people from their jobs, shaming dissenters, and demanding total submission from anyone who disagrees. This is the very definition of totalitarianism, and it is completely alien to our culture and our values and it has absolutely no place in the United States of America,” the president warned. “This attack on our liberty, our magnificent liberty, must be stopped, and it will be stopped.”

“We will expose this dangerous movement, protect our nation’s children, end this radical assault, and preserve our beautiful American way of life,” Trump said, subtly comparing the cancel culture movement to the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

“A new far-left fascism that demands absolute allegiance if you do not speak its language, perform its rituals, recite its mantras, and follow its commandments, then you will be censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted, and punished,” he explained. “Make no mistake, this left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution.”

“To make this possible, they are determined to tear down every statue, symbol, and memory of our national heritage. That is why I am deploying federal law enforcement to protect our monuments, arrest the rioters, and prosecute offenders to the fullest extent of the law….”

The president warned that the rioting, complete with the toppling of statues, “is the predictable result of years of extreme indoctrination and bias in education, journalism, and other cultural institutions. Against every law of society and nature, our children are taught in school to hate our own country and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes but were villains.”

He denounced this anti-Americanism as “a web of lies” in which “all perspective is removed, every virtue is obscured, every motive is twisted, every fact is distorted, and every fact is magnified until the history is purged and the record is disfigured beyond all recognition.” His speech set the record straight, praising the men on Mount Rushmore.

“No movement that seeks to dismantle these treasured American legacies can possibly have a love of America at its heart,” the president declared. “No person who remains quiet at the destruction of this resplendent heritage can possibly lead us to a greater future,” he added, with a subtle dig at presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

Trump warned that the anti-American movement marches under “the banner of social justice, but in truth, it would demolish both justice and society. … In toppling the heroes of 1776, they seek to dissolve the bonds of love and loyalty that we feel for our country and that we feel for each other. Their goal is not to better America, their goal is to end America.”

“We will state the truth in full without apology. We declare that the united states of America is the most just and exceptional nation ever to exist on earth,” he declared. “We are proud of the fact that our country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles. We know that the American family is the bedrock of American life.”

And here’s the racist part:

“We believe in equal opportunity, equal justice, and equal treatment for citizens of every race, background, religion, and creed. Every child of every color, born and unborn, is made in the holy image of God,” Trump added. “We want free and open debate, not speech codes and cancel culture. … We support the courageous men and women of law enforcement. We will never abolish our police or our great Second Amendment, which gives us the right to keep and bear arms.”

“We believe that our children should be taught to love their country, honor our history, and respect our great American flag,” he added. “For the sake of our honor, for the sake of our children, for the sake of our union, we must protect our history, hour heritage, and our great heroes.”

Trump cited Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., who praised the American fFounding as a “promissory note,” promising justice but as of yet unfulfilled. King believed that “the mission of justice required us to embrace our founding ideals,” not reject them.

The president concluded his powerful speech with a paean to the great Americans who came before, including freed slave Frederick Douglass, the Tuskeegee Airmen, Harriet Tubman, Ella Fitzgerald, and many more. He announced the creation of a new monument, “a vast outdoor park that will feature the statues of the greatest Americans to ever live.”

At a time of divisive riots, vandalism, and the toppling of great monuments to American heroes, Trump delivered a passioned defense of the Declaration of Independence, the heroes on Mount Rushmore, and the virtues of America. This speech met the moment.

Go ahead, enjoy the beach and fireworks

Expanded testing in New York shows Whu Han Flu infection rate remains at 1.38%

Mind you, you have to wade past scare headlines and several paragraphs of text to find that nugget, but it’s there.

Missing from that analysis and thus presumably bad news for the panic purveyors is the number of those people testing positive are asymptomatic. As data accumulates from other states, that percentage is huge.

Another bright point is that this infection rate has held steady despite hundreds of thousands of protesters gathering in mass assemblies where social distancing wasn’t practiced.

Boom!

It's the Fourth of July so here's some of the latest news on stifling speech

University of Massachusetts School of Nursing Dean fired for saying “everyone’s life matters”.

Actual quote:

"I am writing to express my concern and condemnation of the recent (and past) acts of violence against people of color," she wrote. "Recent events recall a tragic history of racism and bias that continue to thrive in this country. I despair for our future as a nation if we do not stand up against violence against anyone. BLACK LIVES MATTER, but also, EVERYONE'S LIFE MATTERS. No one should have to live in fear that they will be targeted for how they look or what they believe."

Screenshots of the email gathered attention online, with one person writing: "An upsetting statement made by the Dean of Nusing at UMass Lowell, including the statement ‘all lives matter’ was uncalled for and shows the narrow minded people in lead positions. A sad day to be a nursing student at UML. Dean Leslie Neal-Boylan your words will not be forgotten."

Oklahoma football coach fined $1 million and has his contract shortened by one year for wearing a “One America News Network” T-shirt on a fishing trip.

University of Chicago economics professor under investigation for criticizing calls to defund the police. NYT Group Think Department Chairman piles on:

Associated Press pushes racial division, touts a new-found concern over large gatherings of citizens

Oh, that wicked Trump!

Trump denounced the current cancel culture and, while he was at it, the rioters and looters at recent virtue rallies, of which only 1 in six protestors were actually, you know, black. But to the AP, any denunciation of rioters who claim to be acting on behalf of their black friends (a claim debunked by many inner-city residents who saw their local businesses destroyed by white saviors) is an act of racism itself because, well because!

None of these mewlings from liars with an agenda would matter except that the Associated Press holds a near-monopoly over the national news feed of local papers and thus shapes the national discussion under the guise of informing the readers. And because often the only other sources of news for those readers are the Democrat mouthpieces in mainstream media, it’s no wonder the country is going down.

By the way, Trump is the 16th President to visit Mr. Rushmore, following on the heels of, among others, Obama, Bill Clinton and JFK, but only now have our cub reporters thought to claim that to do so is an act of racism. And because these two particular ignorant idiots know nothing about the subject of Indians they found and quote one old Sioux who whines that the land of his ancestors was stolen; the least they could do to “inform the public” is to note that the Sioux were pushed into the Black Hills and Great Plains by other conquering tribes in the 1760s, and were pushed out in turn by the white man in the 1870s. As history goes, that barely qualifies as a short term rental.

(For a nice roundup of various politicians and news anchors gushing over the “magnificent sight” of Mt. Rushmore, go here. The link includes Bernie Sanders’s reaction to seeing the monument: “This is our country at its very best. What an incredible achievement. …. It really does make one very proud to be an American.” With a CNN voice-over: “Bernie Sanders taking in the majesty of the moment. This monument to four great American presidents.”

UPDATE: The rot isn’t limited to the AP

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What’d I do?

Boston University has set up a committee “to study” renaming its Boston Terrier mascot, “Rhett” because it shares its name with a fictional character Rhet Butler, “a Confederate sympathizer”

Boston University president Robert Brown announced to students Wednesday that he is forming a committee to address the issue of Rhett the Terrier, framing the action as a response to concerns that keeping the mascot’s name honors a character connected to the Confederacy and slavery, as well as sexual assault.

The BU alumnus pushing for the change, one Arcangelo Cella, is of Italian extraction but, presumably because he is also gay, has a special ability to sense racism in others, and the President (oh, for the days of John Silber) also demand that the school color, scarlet be eliminated because it could be considered a reference to a character in the same movie — I kid you not.

This all started, you may recall, with the demand that statues of Confederate generals be torn down, on the ground they betrayed their country in order to preserve slavery. In a few short weeks anyone the mob deems to have existed before 2020 became a target, from U.S. presidents to Union soldiers to abolitionist-pacifist Walt Whitman, to Anne Elk, the Little Mermaid, and now a harmless pooch. The only exception to this cancel project are slaveowners who combined slave ownership with slave trading and – very important å– had prestigious liberal universities named after them. Go figure.